Fundamentals of Nursing Quiz: Test Your Nursing Knowledge

Study Notes

The best method to take a client's body temperature is not specified, but options include oral, axillary, arterial line, and rectal methods.
The nursing process involves a systematic, rational method of planning and providing nursing care for individuals, families, groups, and communities.

Frequent mouth care is necessary for an unconscious client, with the best position being Fowler's or side-lying.
Ensuring the safety of a hospitalized client involves frequent observation and provision of care.
Exchange of gases takes place in the lungs.
The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the lungs.

The stomach is a muscular, enlargeable pouch or sac used for temporary storage of food.
The body's ability to defend itself against invading agents such as bacteria, toxins, viruses, and foreign bodies is called immunity.
Hormones are secreted by glands, such as insulin from the Islets of Langerhans.
The cornea is a transparent membrane that focuses light entering the eyes onto the retina.

The nurse's role in health promotion involves health risk appraisal.
Fever with relative bradycardia is seen in certain conditions, such as typhoid or malaria.

Oxygen in water is removed by gills through the process of diffusion.
The functional unit of the respiratory system is the alveolus.
When hemoglobin is in an environment low in oxygen, it readily gives up its oxygen.
Cetin is a complex substance found on the surface of leaves.

The production of parathyroid hormone has effects including increased calcium ion concentration in extracellular fluids, dissolution of calcium phosphate crystals in bones, and increased excretion of phosphate ions by the kidneys.
Hormones travel via the circulatory system from the site of production to the site of action.
The master control center of the endocrine system is the hypothalamus, which regulates the production and secretion of hormones such as thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH).